David de Boer: Being functional in PHP

Being functional in PHP
Functional programming, though far from new, has gained much traction recently. Functional programming characteristics have started to appear in the PHP world, too. Microframeworks including Silex and Slim, middleware architectures (Stack) and even standards (PSR-7) rely on concepts such as lambdas, referential transparency and immutability, all of which come from functional programming.
I’ll give you a crash course in Erlang, a pragmatic functional language to make you feel familiar with the functional paradigm. By comparing code samples between Erlang and PHP, you’ll find out how and why you should employ functional programming in your PHP applications. You’ll see that functional programming is nothing to be scared of. On the contrary, understanding its concepts broadens your programming horizon and provides you with valuable solutions to your problems.

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David de Boer
David believes that sharing knowledge and code can make a difference. As tech lead and scrum master at Driebit, Amsterdam, he enjoys building things and helping others to do so, too. An open source enthusiast, David was an early Symfony2 adopter and maintains as well as contributes to several projects.

The schedule for the evening will be:

19:00 Doors are open
19:30 Opening speech, introduction of the sponsor
19:40 David de Boer: Being functional in PHP
20:40 Drinks
21:00 Lightning talks
21:30 Drinks/go home

True (https://www.true.nl/) will kindly host this meetup and will supply us with drinks and snacks.

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